:kitty-cri-screm:

try not to re-litigate this, but if you think anonymously threatening to murder someone else's animal is cool and fine, you can fuck off

Further down in the thread lots of people are agreeing that they would shoot the cat :ohnoes:

  • Chapo_Trap_Horse [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually.

    What in the ever loving fuck???? Where did they get these numbers? I didn't read the whole paper but I couldn't find it scanning.

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, it's a highly debated estimate. To be honest part of it I think is the desire to attribute the massive collapse of birds population to another cause than the main one: our modern agricultural practices killing insects in tremendous amounts, depleting their food source (see this article or this one for example). I still think outdoors cats kill a significant amount of a depressingly decreasing population of many species, so keeping them indoors can only help.